Handle



J. TOBIN.

HANDLE.

Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT QFMCE JOHN TOBIN, OF NEXVARK, NEYV J ERSEY HAN-DLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patents No. 399,?70, dated March5, 1889.

Application filed January 12, 18881 Serial No. %0,537. (Ne model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN TUEIN, a citizen of the United States, residingat Newark, in the County of Essex and State of New J crsey, haveinvented new and useful Inprovenents in Handlcs, of which the followingl a specification. v

This invention has for its object to provide a novel handle especiallydesigned forcot'feepots and like articles; and it consists in thefeatures of Construction hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing made to the accompanying drawings, illustrating; the invention, inwhich- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a they can be soldered tothe aforesaid plates ef.

coffee-pot provided with my improved handle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection of the handle detached, said figure being' drawn to a largerscale than the preceding figure. Fig. 3 is a similar section taken in aplane at right angles to the plane of Fig. Fig. a is a longitudinalsection of a modification.

Similar letters indicate correspondin g paris.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the body of the handle, whichis made in any convenient forn and of any suitable material, a poorconductorof beat-such as woodbeing preferable. tudinalbore, a, and atran sverse bore, b, which borcs interseot each other and are intendedto receive the handle-seotions B and (l.

In said body A is a longi In the handle-section C 'is forned an internalthread, c, which receives an external thread, d, on the end of thehandle-section B, 5

whereby thetwo handle-sections are con nectcd to each other in theinterier of the body A and are held firnly to said body.

able way-for instance, as shown in Fig. l, by the use ofattaching-platcs e andf, which are soldered to said sections and to thepot.

The body A is at its upper end fol-med into a solid closed head, whichcan be ornainented in any fashion desired, and the main bore (L andtransverse counterbore b intersect or join at the inner side of theclosed head.

i The sections B and C are coinposed of wires 1 or rods circular incross-section, and, as shown, i the inner end of one has ascrew-threadwhich directly screws into a screw-socket forned in the inner end of theother, while the oui'er end of each wire or rod section is bent into aVertical plane, or approximately so, so that A handle constructed ashereiubefore described can herapidlya'd eheaply produced, and presen's anent and ornanental appearance.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A handle for coffee-pots and other articles, consisting of a body, A,having a solid closed head, a longitudinal bore extending into the bodyto the closed head thei-cof, a counterbore, b, extending laterallythrough the body at right angles to the main bore below the head, andthe handle-sections B and C, eX- tending, respectively, into the saidbores, one having forncd directly in its extremity a transversescz'ew-socket, into which, directly screws the screw-threaded end of theother, the outer en ds of said sections being` bent and adapted to beattached to the article, subi stantially as shown and described.

In Fig. 4( I have shown the lanile-section (3 as being provided wilt-han external thread,

(1', and the handlc-smjelion B wilh an internal In testinony whereof Ihave hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

JOHN TOBIN. [L. s] witnesses:

W. C. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

